D. Stussy wrote: > "Terry" <Terry234@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:15zftzg0inbtw$.1axhig7emz66g.dlg@40tude.net... > >>On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:43:01 -0500, Scruffy McScruffovitch wrote: >> >> >>>Place of internment is the same as place of burial >>> >>>"Unsprung" <peterblood666@joimail.com> wrote in message >>>news:13mcklca1r5if85@corp.supernews.com... >>> >>>>What does "place of intenment" mean on a death certificate. This person >>>>died in NH but the place of interment was VT. The cemetery is not > > listed. > >>>>Peter >>>> >> >>internment is an entirely different thing and has nothing to do with >>burial: >> >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment > > > Actually, in some places, they literally are the same thing - e.g. "above > ground burials" near New Orleans, LA (USA) - or any other place where a > Masoleum is used as the final resting place on a regular basis. Those > instances are both "burial" and confinement! > > _Strictly_ for the record: New Orleans isn't the only place the above ground burials happen; it's quite common all over South Louisiana, because the water-table is less than 6-ft underground. (g) New Orelans cemeteries are the best-known of the places because New Orleans is better known than Houma, say. Cheryl

"singhals" <singhals@erols.com> wrote in message news:_L6dnQfsKOogRvranZ2dnUVZ_hKdnZ2d@rcn.net... SNIP | _Strictly_ for the record: New Orleans isn't the only place | the above ground burials happen; it's quite common all over | South Louisiana, because the water-table is less than 6-ft | underground. (g) New Orelans cemeteries are the best-known | of the places because New Orleans is better known than | Houma, say. | | Cheryl Hah! But Houma is better known than, say, Dry Prong, Cher! BTW, I had a friend in the Army from Dry Prong: Jerry Safarik. Big fella of Czech descent. -- Henry Brownlee Houma, Louisiana

singhals wrote: > D. Stussy wrote: > >> "Terry" <Terry234@hotmail.com> wrote in message >> news:15zftzg0inbtw$.1axhig7emz66g.dlg@40tude.net... >> >>> On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:43:01 -0500, Scruffy McScruffovitch wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Place of internment is the same as place of burial >>>> >>>> "Unsprung" <peterblood666@joimail.com> wrote in message >>>> news:13mcklca1r5if85@corp.supernews.com... >>>> >>>>> What does "place of intenment" mean on a death certificate. This >>>>> person >>>>> died in NH but the place of interment was VT. The cemetery is not >> >> listed. >> >>>>> Peter >>>>> >>> >>> internment is an entirely different thing and has nothing to do with >>> burial: >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment >> >> >> Actually, in some places, they literally are the same thing - e.g. "above >> ground burials" near New Orleans, LA (USA) - or any other place where a >> Masoleum is used as the final resting place on a regular basis. Those >> instances are both "burial" and confinement! >> >> > > > _Strictly_ for the record: New Orleans isn't the only place the above > ground burials happen; it's quite common all over South Louisiana, > because the water-table is less than 6-ft underground. (g) New Orelans > cemeteries are the best-known of the places because New Orleans is > better known than Houma, say. > > Cheryl Back a little over 50 years ago I was in the army with a fellow-draftee who said he was from Houma. I asked him how the oil business was going (Houma being one of the centers for offshore drilling in that part of the Gulf). He said "We don't have any oil around Houma". Questioning him further, I found that he was from Homer, in the northern part of Louisiana. (For the uninitiated, Houma is pronounced like Homer, but with the R being sounded.) Allen